22 Aug
2022
22 Aug
'22
6:32 a.m.
On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, Tom Gardner wrote:
Fred:
Please quote the current version of the oral history,
It says:
Porter: Jimmy said that you guys got together with the guys at Wang in a
dark bar one night and, after a
discussion, you decided on the size of what the smaller diskette should be
and there was a cocktail napkin
on the bar which was 5 1/4" square <laughter> napkin <inaudible>.
That's
Jimmy's story.
[Ed. note: Contacted in 2009, both Adkisson and Massaro stated that there
was never any such meeting
in a bar with Dr. Wang]
5.25 and 3.5 Floppy Disk Oral History Panel (computerhistory.org)
<https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102657925
-05-01-acc.pdf> at page 10
Will you now stop promulgating this fable?
Yes. Knowing that BOTH deny it shows that it is an apocryphal tale.
I was, indeed, looking at an older version (2005)
When I had only heard of Massaro's refutation, I was wondering whether
Adkisson agreed. Now, it is clear.
Thank you.